Full Practice Authority For NP
Full Practice Authority
Full Practice Authority for NPs is a significant legal issue that limits the role of NPs and affects health and care delivery. The range of activities that the nurse practitioner should practice is legally regulated by the licensing state and is a controversial issue in the medical community. Nurse practitioners must hold Registered Nurse (RN) licensure it the state in which they practice. However, unlike Registered Nurses, Nursing practitioners are advanced above the nursing licensure requirements. Nurse Practitioners are educated to give full range primary, specialty and acute healthcare services, including ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing medications, diagnosing and treating chronic and acute conditions, educating and counseling patients. Currently, only 21 states’ legislation allows nurse practitioners to independently diagnose, treat, order and interpret tests and make …show more content…
medical prescription without the supervision of a physician.
Giving the Nursing Practitioners Full Practice Authority will make the NPs effective and efficient team players in the health sector.
It is unlikely that full practice for NPs will influence the physician practices negatively. According to a study by Horrocks et al. (2002), the quality, effectiveness, safety of care offered by NPs, shows that is a safe alternative to physician care. Thus, giving full practice to the Nursing professionals would not compromise the quality of health care but would enable the NPs fully participate in bettering health care provision.
Giving NPs full practice will encourage innovation in care delivery. The move will save the physicians time and reduce their workload. It is to enlarge the number of qualified health agile workforce that can respond to emergencies quickly (Mundinger et al. 2000). In essence, the NPs fight to legislatively expand their scope of practice will improve patient access to high-quality care, increase the healthcare professionals in regions where patients are geographically limited to quality
care.
Consensus model/LACE
The APRN Consensus Model is crafted to raise the role of APRNs and increase job satisfaction by offering increased opportunities to practice independently.
The Consensus Model: LACE shows the greatest power to increase equitable, safe and accessible healthcare. The model is the most appropriate policy to address the APRN profession. Because the LACE model is implemented in all states, it will allow the APRN to continue growing and satisfy the needs of the evolving healthcare. Also, it enables the APRN’s scope of practice to be used to its fullest extent. The weaknesses of the Consensus Model: LACE include that it may constrain renewal of expired nurses certifications or license to practice. The Consensus Model regulation may also conflict with the certification requirements of nurses in their states.
Further, it will ensure that accreditation, licensure, education and certification are uniform across all the 50 states, contributing to accessible healthcare to satisfy the growing needs of the nation.
The anticipated uniformity to be caused by the APRN Consensus Model will enable the APRNs to operate to the full extent of their licensure and education. Therefore, the nation will acquire better and quality healthcare services. The uniformity of the system will produce new opportunities for nurses. The system will enable increased mobility across the nation, since the nurses will be using a uniform system. Thus, even the patients in remote and geographically segregated areas will acquire nursing care appropriately.
The model will impact by expanding the APRN prescription privileges to include authority to prescribe with physician collaboration, written prescription protocol, authority to prescribe without physician involvement and authority to prescribe controlled substance. Therefore, the model will increased collaboration between nurses and physicians as well as enable independence of practice of the APRNs.
Full Practice Authority for NPs is a significant legal issue that limits the role of NPs and affects health and care delivery. The range of activities that the nurse practitioner should practice is legally regulated by the licensing state and is a controversial issue in the medical community. Nurse practitioners must hold Registered Nurse (RN) licensure it the state in which they practice. However, unlike Registered Nurses, Nursing practitioners are advanced above the nursing licensure requirements. Nurse Practitioners are educated to give full range primary, specialty and acute healthcare services, including ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing medications, diagnosing and treating chronic and acute conditions, educating and counseling patients. Currently, only 21 states’ legislation allows nurse practitioners to independently diagnose, treat, order and interpret tests and make …show more content…
medical prescription without the supervision of a physician.
Giving the Nursing Practitioners Full Practice Authority will make the NPs effective and efficient team players in the health sector.
It is unlikely that full practice for NPs will influence the physician practices negatively. According to a study by Horrocks et al. (2002), the quality, effectiveness, safety of care offered by NPs, shows that is a safe alternative to physician care. Thus, giving full practice to the Nursing professionals would not compromise the quality of health care but would enable the NPs fully participate in bettering health care provision.
Giving NPs full practice will encourage innovation in care delivery. The move will save the physicians time and reduce their workload. It is to enlarge the number of qualified health agile workforce that can respond to emergencies quickly (Mundinger et al. 2000). In essence, the NPs fight to legislatively expand their scope of practice will improve patient access to high-quality care, increase the healthcare professionals in regions where patients are geographically limited to quality
care.
Consensus model/LACE
The APRN Consensus Model is crafted to raise the role of APRNs and increase job satisfaction by offering increased opportunities to practice independently.
The Consensus Model: LACE shows the greatest power to increase equitable, safe and accessible healthcare. The model is the most appropriate policy to address the APRN profession. Because the LACE model is implemented in all states, it will allow the APRN to continue growing and satisfy the needs of the evolving healthcare. Also, it enables the APRN’s scope of practice to be used to its fullest extent. The weaknesses of the Consensus Model: LACE include that it may constrain renewal of expired nurses certifications or license to practice. The Consensus Model regulation may also conflict with the certification requirements of nurses in their states.
Further, it will ensure that accreditation, licensure, education and certification are uniform across all the 50 states, contributing to accessible healthcare to satisfy the growing needs of the nation.
The anticipated uniformity to be caused by the APRN Consensus Model will enable the APRNs to operate to the full extent of their licensure and education. Therefore, the nation will acquire better and quality healthcare services. The uniformity of the system will produce new opportunities for nurses. The system will enable increased mobility across the nation, since the nurses will be using a uniform system. Thus, even the patients in remote and geographically segregated areas will acquire nursing care appropriately.
The model will impact by expanding the APRN prescription privileges to include authority to prescribe with physician collaboration, written prescription protocol, authority to prescribe without physician involvement and authority to prescribe controlled substance. Therefore, the model will increased collaboration between nurses and physicians as well as enable independence of practice of the APRNs.